We've Just Crowned a King. What Next?

https://neuburger.substack.com/p/weve-just-crowned-a-king-what-next

“When the president does it, that means it’s not illegal.”
—Richard Nixon

I recently wrote a piece, unpublished so far, that contends at length that it’s over constitutionally. The state has been transformed, by both corrupt parties, into an American kingship. I’ve been writing an ongoing series (“The Fourth American Constitution”) contending just that.

The change is now complete, the last piece in place. Yes, the corner cases need to be sorted, cases that in practice will almost never occur — for example, could the president commit rape in the nation’s defense? But the territory is already marked, defined, surveyed. Unstopped reconstruction is next.

Trump v. US

In defense of that point, I want to go back to the ruling in Trump v. US, the one that cements what previous administrations have tended toward, that the president has near-absolute power.

This is not a new idea; just an expanded one. The growth of the imperial president, which took off in the second third of the 20th century, is reaching its final form in the 21st. From Bush-Cheney’s expansion of the president’s domination of Congress in a self-declared “time of war,” and with Obama’s help, the legalization of torture; to Obama’s de facto adoption of the president’s right to murder American citizens and his failure to roll back any of the power Bush-Cheney assumed, the table was set for Trump and the Court’s decision in Trump v. US.

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